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Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle, KG (died 3 March 1542) was an illegitimate son of King Edward IV, half-brother of Queen Elizabeth of York, and thus an uncle of King Henry VIII, at whose court he was a prominent figure and by whom he was appointed Lord Deputy of Calais (1533–40).〔Byrne, vol.6, index, p.403〕 The survival of a large collection of his correspondence in the Lisle Letters makes his life one of the best-documented of his era. ==Biography== Arthur Plantagenet was born in Calais, then an English possession in France, between 1461 and 1475, and died at the Tower of London, where he is buried. The identity of his mother is uncertain; the most likely candidate appears to be the "wanton wench" Elizabeth Wayte, although the historical record is spotty on this issue, and it is not entirely clear that Wayte is distinct from another of Edward's mistresses, Dame Elizabeth Lucy. Another possible candidate is Elizabeth Shore. His godfather was William FitzAlan, 16th Earl of Arundel. Arthur spent his childhood at the court of his father Edward IV. How he passed his youth after his father's death in 1483 is not known. In 1501 he joined the household of his half-sister, the queen consort Elizabeth of York, and moved to the household of Henry VII after her death in 1503. After the accession of his nephew Henry VIII (1509), he was formally designated an Esquire of the King's Bodyguard and was a close companion of Henry's (despite the age difference). In 1514 Arthur was appointed High Sheriff of Hampshire and made captain of the Vice-Admiral's ship ''Trinity Sovereign,'' rising to become Vice-Admiral of England. In 1519 he and his wife, Elizabeth Grey Baroness Lisle, took possession of the lands that had belonged to her father (her brother and niece having both died). In 1520, he attended his nephew, King Henry VIII, at the Field of Cloth of Gold. On 25 April 1523, Arthur was created Viscount Lisle. He was also to be selected Privy Councilor, Governor of Calais, and Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports and named as deputy of Calais, after the death of John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners on 16 March 1533. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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